Bienestar económico regional: Un enfoque comparativo entre las provincias que conforman la Zona Administrativa de Planificación 7 del Ecuador en el año 2010.

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to determine the welfare index for the seven planning region from Ecuador during 2010. Presents an analysis of the region aforementioned under the Osberg (1985) approach with four categories of welfare, such are: consumption, wealth, distribution, and safety. To measure welfare today, it is under the reflection of a set of social and regional indicators and the information presented by the national accounts the same as shown in the study that the El Oro province is the most developed in production and trade level, educational infrastructure and housing, as well as their income level, to this province follow the provinces of Loja and Zamora Chinchipe, in that order.